Unearthed

A library for Android that notifies you when your app was restored after a process death.

Should you still save your instance state in a world of phones with 12GB of RAM? Maybe! Since knowing is better than guessing, Unearthed lets you track how often your app is sent to the background, dies, and gets restored. It's up to you what to do with that information, but why not log an event to your analytics?

Usage

Wherever convenient, add a listener to

Unearthed

Unearthed.onProcessRestored { graveyard ->
  val timesRestored = graveyard.gravestones.size
  Log.d("MainActivity", "App has been restored $timesRestored times.")
  trackProcessDeathToAnalytics()
}

Unearthed will initialize itself via AndroidX App Startup, so there's nothing else to do.

Disabling AndroidX App Startup

It's possible to disable AndroidX App Startup. When doing that, make sure to call

Unearthed.initManuallyWithDisabledAndroidXStartup(app)

Application.onCreate

Download

Find artifacts on Maven Central at

de.hannesstruss.unearthed:unearthed:0.3.0

License

Copyright 2020 Hannes Struss

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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